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In the dilapidated temple, Zhu Yingqiong's face was green and purple as she fainted on the ground, her mouth was constantly speaking nonsense in English, I could not understand it at all, but her body was trembling. She must have thought of something terrifying, and this situation was something that could not be seen by the tough Zhu Yingqiong.

Sure enough, no matter how strong a woman was, she was still a woman. There was still a soft spot in her heart!

I sat down beside her and gave her a few mouthfuls of water. Seeing her spitting out a few mouthfuls of black blood while her complexion gradually recovered, my heart, which had been hanging in the air all this time, finally relaxed.

Outside the door, the miasma was still overwhelming, it was unknown when it would dissipate. If not for finding this rundown temple in time, Zhu Yingqiong and I would probably have died outside.

But what about the sea and the Fourth Uncle?

Initially, the sea and the monks were always ahead of me. I thought that they had also entered the run-down temple, but now it seemed that they were still in the miasma and didn't even know where they had gone. I was very worried.

Zhu Yingqiong was unconscious. What could I do alone?

Being here alone in this Wild Mountain is a very terrifying thing. My heart started to feel a little anxious, but after thinking carefully for a while, I gradually calmed down.

Damn it, the old man even dared to live in the Wild Mountain for a year. As a descendant of the Chen Family, what am I afraid of? At most, he would just die.

After realizing the fact that I was going to die, I didn't have any worries. I calmed my heart down and gathered the abandoned firewood within the temple to start a bonfire. Following the light of the fire, I carefully looked at the temple before me.

It was very narrow, and its surroundings were about the width of a kitchen. There were a lot of weeds on the ground, and in the middle was a deity statue that had collapsed, falling in pieces. It was hard to tell what it was offering, but in front of the deity statue was a stone table.

I tore open the can and put it beside the fire to warm it up, then fed Zhu Yingqiong a little. After feeding it to the point of being confused, I finally had time to look outside and realized that it was already dark, but when I shone my light on it, I could still see the thick miasma. When the door opened, it would immediately rush in.

I hastily closed the door, not knowing when the miasma would disperse. No wonder Wang Yu's army failed in their attack on Wild Mountain. With this miasma as a natural barrier, it was impossible to break in.

I took out my hunting rifle and fired a shot outside the door. The sound of the gunshot was very ear-piercing in the dead forest and I believe that the Fourth Uncle who was lost outside would hear it and come here to find me. I wanted to go out to look for them, but the miasma outside was thick.

Zhu Yingqiong's condition gradually improved. She woke up around eleven in the evening, but her body was still weak. After drinking some water, she fell asleep.

It was only on the second day that I discovered that the miasma was gradually dispersing. This made me very excited, as long as the miasma dispersed, I would be able to set off to find the Fourth Uncle and the others. However, the only situation was that Zhu Yingqiong had not improved.

In the morning, she woke up with a dazed look in her eyes, unable to speak, and would vomit blood the moment she opened her mouth. She couldn't eat at all, so she could only drink water, not to mention travelling, so I could only stay in the broken temple to guard her. By the afternoon, the fucking miasma once again filled the entire forest, which made me extremely terrified, because basically, in this area, only half a day was safe every day, while the rest was filled with miasma.

It was no wonder that even after all these years, the Primordial Forest was still undeveloped. Most likely, other than the problems with the borders of a few nations, one would still need this life-threatening miasma.

On this day, just like last night, I would shoot every two hours, but I did not receive any response from the Fourth Uncle. This made me worried, even if you could not find me, you can still shoot me with a gun to send a message.

I was glad that the temple was safe, because I couldn't hear anything outside, including the beastmen. When Zhu Yingqiong was in a coma, I would cover my mouth and nose to look around, to pick up some firewood, but I didn't dare to go too far, so I rushed back as soon as I felt that something was amiss.

It was a pity that the miasma was too thick for him to see his surroundings clearly.

At night, Zhu Yingqiong woke up, and her face looked much better. Although she was still pale, she had clearly recovered a lot, and after eating a little and thanking me, she sat down beside the bonfire in a daze.

I feel a little awkward. Actually, I'm not very close with Zhu Yingqiong, and it could even be considered to be an enemy relationship, because the old man's disappearance was caused by Charles, and she is also Charles's woman. Under this kind of environment where they get along together, staying silent was indeed very awkward.

I cleared my throat and asked, "Why are you here?"

Zhu Yingqiong obviously didn't react, and after a long while, she turned her head to look at me, but didn't say anything.

I continued, "This place isn't a place where women come from at all!"

Zhu Yingqiong immediately retorted: "Are you trying to say that women are inferior to men?"

I hurriedly shook my head. "That's not what I meant, but I wanted to say that Wild Mountain has nothing to do with you. You are just a woman, why would you come to this kind of place to suffer?

Zhu Yingqiong looked at me with shining eyes, and suddenly said coldly. "Are you pitying me?"

I felt that this woman's temper was really hard to fathom and could only change to another meaning: "I mean, you don't need to work so hard for Charles. Look at the Wild Mountain this time, he did not appear at all to control you from the back, and if you die, he would think of a way to immediately change groups.

Zhu Yingqiong suddenly laughed, causing me to be a little stunned. It was because Zhu Yingqiong was a very beautiful woman, but because she had a cold and detached personality, she had a poker face that was impermeable to water and fire, making it hard for people to get close to her. Suddenly, she laughed, and it felt like thousands of trees and pear blossoms were blooming.

As if she had sensed that I was looking at her, she immediately stopped smiling, and then changed into an ice-cold tone of voice. "I did not come here for anyone, it was for myself, and had nothing to do with Charles."

Even deceiving ghosts wouldn't believe it. You are a Chinese who lives in the UK, how would you know about Wild Mountain if it wasn't for Charles, let alone come here, why would it have nothing to do with Charles.

Zhu Yingqiong stood up and drank some water, "Actually, when the miasma arrived, you could have abandoned me and escaped by yourself. That way, your chance of escaping would have been very high."

I spread out my hands. "The abandonment of a friend to escape by myself doesn't exist in my dictionary."

"Friends?"

Zhu Yingqiong laughed coldly, as if she was mocking him, and said faintly after a while: "I am not your friend, and I have never had a friend either. If you were in a coma, I would definitely abandon you and flee for my life, so even if you saved me, if I were to encounter such a situation again, the first thing I would do is to protect my own life!"

I shook my head nonchalantly. "Whatever. Anyway, this kind of thing shouldn't happen again."

After saying this sentence, I already had nothing else to say, because Zhu Yingqiong's thinking is too extreme, there's no way to communicate with her. I don't know if her way of thinking was something that she trained herself since young, but I have never interacted with someone like her.

We were silent for a long time, and during that time, Zhu Yingqiong tried to stand up again, but before she could even walk a few steps, she fell onto the ground, her body was still weak, if she wanted to walk, she had to wait until tomorrow. She asked me what happened after she fainted.

At around 10 PM, I threw the firewood into the bonfire and told her, "You go to sleep first. I'll continue my vigil. Tomorrow, when the mist has dispersed, we'll find someone."

Zhu Yingqiong nodded her head and laid by the bonfire with her back facing me, then suddenly her faint voice came out: "Chen San, do you really think that I am working for Charles?"

For a moment, I didn't know how to reply. She didn't wait for me to say anything, but suddenly sat up and stared straight at me as she said in a deep voice, "Actually, I'm the same as you, my grandfather was also a member of the drilling team back then!"

What?

I was immediately shocked, seeing that Zhu Yingqiong didn't know how to reply to that sentence.

She continued to speak, "I had deceived you before, but there were only three people left standing guard on top of the drill team, and other than your grandfather, Chen Yihuo, Charles and my grandfather, there were three other people who came out alive!"

I said to myself, I already knew this, but I didn't interrupt and continued to listen.

"My grandfather is called Zhu Haiming. Out of the four people who escaped, I only know the names of the three people. As for who the last one is, I don't even know …"

When Fourth Uncle told me about this, he only said that four people escaped, and among them only mentioned the Old Master and Charles. But, in the end, he didn't say who the other two people were, and now that there's an additional Zhu Haiming, who exactly is the last person?

Even Zhu Yingqiong did not know, could it be that someone was deliberately hiding this person's name?

"When the four of them walked out alive and killed the three people that were left behind, there was no more news about Wild Mountain. However, not long after my grandfather left the Wild Mountain, he died for no reason, and at that time, I was still unborn, until my parents divorced a few years later, I was brought by my mother to England. From the moment I could remember, I had not seen my father before.

After I heard it, I felt that something was very strange. Why did the Zhu Family have a relationship with Charles?

Zhu Yingqiong continued to speak, "Charles had been very strict with me since I was young, to the point where he had never even treated me as a human being. When I was very young, the other children were all studying in class, having beautiful childhood, while I …"

She seemed to ridicule herself as she laughed, "I was locked in the basement and trained in combat. I don't want to see the sun in the dark. Everyone's childhood is a luxury for me …"

"..." When I was sixteen, I had my first love and dream, but I was still imprisoned in the basement and trained in firearms. When I was able to take charge of my own affairs, I started to inquire about my parents' whereabouts, and only then did I find out that they divorced because my father came to the Wild Mountain, but there was no news of them since, and they probably died in this mountain. Although my mother divorced him, she had always loved him in her heart, and after father went missing, she also came here, but from then on, there was no news of me.

No wonder she had such an extreme personality. She didn't have a father's love for her since she was young, and instead grew up amidst combat and firearms. Although this kind of woman looks strong, her heart is extremely weak.

This is the first time I felt that Zhu Yingqiong was very pitiful. She hugged her knees as she sat by the bonfire and slowly told her story with a cold and clear voice, as if the things she said had nothing to do with her.

The reason for her grandfather's, Zhu Haiming's, death, might have had something to do with Charles, but it must have involved the whole thing. It was also because of this reason that her father came to the Wild Mountain, followed by her mother.

It was not hard to guess that her parents must have died in the mountains as well, so Zhu Yingqiong did not come here to complete Charles's goal. Instead, she came here to find out how her parents had died, or to find out why their parents had died in the mountains.

"Thank you for saving me. I still have the chance to investigate everything, but we are not friends. I did not have any friends before, and I will not have any friends now or in the future!"

After Zhu Yingqiong finished this sentence, she fell onto the ground. Not long after, I heard heavy breathing, which meant that she had fallen asleep. I sat beside the bonfire and smoked one cigarette after another, unable to calm my heart.

After staying awake for two nights straight, I couldn't hold on any longer and slept for half an hour in a daze. Suddenly, I jolted awake and saw that Zhu Yingqiong was lying on the ground unharmed.

Sleep came flooding in like a tidal wave. I didn't dare to sit there, afraid that I would fall asleep again. I got up and stretched my body to let it go, but the moment I stood up, I saw something out of the corner of my eye.

At first, I didn't pay much attention to it, but after a quick thought, my body broke out in a cold sweat. I abruptly turned my head to look at the idol in the temple.